Archive for the ‘Oregon’ Category

2 more wedding pictures

Not sure how they got split up between two posts (I thought they were all in the first one? (Mommy brain?)) but here are more pictures of my friend Janell’s gorgeous wedding in Oregon last weekend.

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12 like a scene from a movie

I have never seen a more beautiful backdrop to a wedding than the one behind my dear friend Janell as she married her college sweetheart. I brought OBaby with me out to Oregon for the ceremony because through a series of events and never being in town at the same time, Janell had not met [...]

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26 you know how… (solo trip to Oregon edition)

You know how when your baby cries and screams hysterically for 6 seemingly eternal minutes as the plane is taking off but then finally falls asleep on your lap and the way your arm is positioned makes it feel like it is going to fall off to the extent that you have thoughts of having [...]

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18 wherein I am peed on at 30,000 feet

Hi friends. I promise I haven’t forgotten you. It’s just that a whirl wind called vacation ran it’s course through my life and suddenly I felt the urge to do nothing but curl up in the fetal position and rock back and forth for a while. No matter how hard I tried to pump out [...]

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20 debriefing on travel as a family

{Taken just moments before somebody fell asleep in my arms, thus the lack of cooperation} Vacations are so tricky as a family. Long gone are the days of alternating between napping and playing sudoku during a flight. When we’re traveling, it’s all hands on deck, firing on all cylinders, all OBaby, all the time. It’s [...]

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21 doing Portland, baby style

We touched down in a sunny, 68° Portland, Oregon on Wednesday afternoon. It was so nice I could hardly stand it. Since we’re at the coast much of our time in state, we decided to stick around the city and do some browsing of the shops on 23rd while eating gelato with those cute little [...]

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27 Yo Gabba Gabba: surely a gateway drug

So this post was written (and meant to be published) before we flew today, but because I apparently couldn’t tell the difference between am and pm when I published this, it is now being published while we’re flying. It’s like I’m speaking to you from the past… OoOoOoOoOo… trippy. ~~~~~~ This is just an assumption, [...]

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37 on being (f)unemployed

Last week DanO gave his boss his letter of resignation. Without getting into details, I will just say that you cannot insult your employee’s wife’s ability to be a good mother and expect there to be no consequences. Yes, you read that correctly. (::waves hi to DanO’s former employer who reads this blog::) But you [...]

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